In a letter sent to Zambian President Rupiah Banda on Thursday, 23 IPI World Press Freedom Heroes urged the Zambian authorities to reverse, on appeal, Mr M’membe’s 4 June conviction on contempt of court charges – which led to a four-month prison sentence with hard labour. Mr M’membe, who is also an IPI World Press […]

The International Press Institute today named Gambian publisher and editor Pap Saine an IPI World Press Freedom Hero in honour of his courageous work for press freedom in the face of attacks and harassment. Pap Saine is the publisher and editor of The Point, and the dean of Reuters’ correspondents in West and Central Africa. […]

A court in Azerbaijan’s Baku district of Garadag has sentenced opposition journalist Eynulla Fatullayev to an additional 30 months in prison. The journalist, who has been imprisoned since April 2007, was found guilty of illegal possession of narcotics, a charge based on small amounts of heroin which were allegedly found in his clothes in December […]

A day after a Tunisian appeals court upheld a four-year prison sentence for a journalist who covered violent protests against unemployment and corruption in the southern mining region of Gafsa, the International Press Institute (IPI) released a report outlining the pressure faced by journalists who cover corruption in Tunisia. The report follows IPI’s participation in […]